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Head of Innovation & Partnerships @ Alice & Bob

Fun fact: from microscopes๐Ÿ”ฌ to qubits โš›๏ธ - two different ways to enjoying experiments ! I really enjoy the chats with my fellow scientists at work, and this week we shared the fun (and sometimes frustration) of experimental headaches. Starting my career in biotechnologies and medicine, I felt like a mechanic working without a blueprint when exploring the human body. When experiments didnโ€™t go as planned, we might have been on the brink of discovering a new mechanism. Now, I'm immersed in the world of quantum computing, where the foundational theories have been firmly established since the 1960s. Itโ€™s fascinating to see the different mindsets: In biology, discrepancies might hint at groundbreaking discoveries, but in quantum computing, they usually mean there is an error in the experiment and it's back to the drawing board. I'm not sure which scenario I prefer: wandering in the dark or having the ability to pinpoint my mistakes. ๐Ÿคฃ #Science #QuantumComputing #BiomedicalEngineering #Research #Innovation #ExperimentsAreFun ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ก๐‘’: ๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘™๐‘™๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘œ๐‘› ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ฆ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘› โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘”๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘‹๐พ๐ถ๐ท, ๐‘Ž ๐‘๐‘œ๐‘š๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘ ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘’๐‘  ๐ผ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ฃ๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘‘๐‘š๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘—๐‘œ๐‘ฆ๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘œ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ 15 ๐‘ฆ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ . ๐ด๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘“๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘’ ๐‘ฆ๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ , ๐‘–๐‘ก ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘˜๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘ข๐‘”โ„Ž! https://xkcd.com/

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John C.

FOptica, FSPIE, CMatP, MAICD, FGIA

1mo

Biology and medicine have always relied on physics (& chemistry) and the tension between theory and experiment to discover new things (where the biomedical space seems to deal to date primarily with emergent phenomena) - think of epri imaging of unpaired electrons, a quantum process first observed during WW2 (perhaps raising questions about effective motivation) which now drives many new insights in medicine and elsewhere. That related processes might also be involved in the algorithmic signal processing within the brain is tantalising if still speculative at this point in time.

Michael Biercuk

Helping make quantum technology useful for enterprise, defense, space, and R&D | CEO & Founder, Q-CTRL | Professor of Quantum Physics & Quantum Technology | Innovator | Speaker | TEDx | SXSW

1mo

I might politely challenge this notion. There are certain parts of QC where we are really working to "engineer" useful systems - there the physics is long established and indeed when something goes wrong it's almost always experimental error. We understand spin-1/2 dynamics through a century of experiments, so when something doesn't match we need to figure out why. Nonetheless in the process of delivering that outcome we often rely on interpretation of new measurements trying to elucidate limiting phenomena or simply explain confusing observations. Especially in areas like condensed-matter approaches to QC (superconducting and solid-state semiconductor devices), theory frequently trails and is used to explain new observations.

Shahaf Asban

PhD | Mathematical Physicist | Data Science | Deep & Statistical Learning | Quantum Technologies - Computing & Sensing

1mo

Great point! Diffusion is a good case study to highlight your justified dilemma. There is a โ€œmagicโ€ (dimension) number where one would work better than the other. However, thereโ€™s also a crossoverโ€ฆ depending on the number of choices you make in each step. Captured nicely by Shizuo Kakutani: "A drunk man will find his way home, but a drunk bird may get lost forever" Great work by George Pรณlya.

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